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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDA's In Kansas Now Could Investigate The Demise Of A Zygote Or Fetus.
Thanks to personhood, women who do any harm to their unborn fetus or zygote could be in legal trouble. And it would be a classic catch 22.
With onerous TRAP laws closing female health clinics women face a tough choice. Women who cannot afford medical care or insurance face risk with no access to prenatal care. If anything bad happens women face possible prosecution.
Regardless of the details of the law aggressive DA's would be tempted to make an example of women who intentionally or unintentionally harmed the unborn fetus.
Personhood opens up a truly vicious Pandora's box for women in Kansas. And it poses a real dilemma for doctors and health practitioners who could be charged as accessories if health care were inadequate or deemed improper by the authorities.
Small government is only for the big guy, the rich or corporations. Big intrusive government is only for the little guy who cannot fight back.
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)like pluck their eyelashes one by one,
or wax their butt...
byeya
(2,842 posts)Auggie
(31,161 posts)Gin
(7,212 posts)What the hell is happening in Kansas?
hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)
"Small government is only for the big guy, the rich or corporations. Big intrusive government is only for the little guy who cannot fight back."
Hekate
(90,642 posts)... over a menstrual pad?
In reference to the uncounted numbers of unimplanted zygotes that are flushed away by Mother Nature every single month.
RKP5637
(67,103 posts)Initech
(100,062 posts)RKP5637
(67,103 posts)way beyond the Taliban. ... wait 'till the next elections and they kick out any remaining politician with even a hint of being moderate. ... the democrats often don't even run candidates anymore ... and even a hint of being a moderate republican will get you kicked out of office or ostracized.